Prune stone fruit

A little nip and tuck now can help keep pests and disease at bay

Lucy explains how to make the most of the next few weeks

I need to get a move on with all those late-season jobs!

I ‘summer pruned’ my apples and pears in July and they have started to send out shoots -should I remove them? Summer pruning is somewhat tricky, especially in a summer like this. The rather broad advi

There is a plum tree growing wild on wasteland with delicious fruits borne on its many suckers. If I dig up a sucker can I grow this tree in my garden or do I have to make a graft? Self-seeded plum tr

Professor Buczacki is a horticultural expert, writer, and former chair of Gardeners' Question Time